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Amusement is the state of experiencing
Experience

Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event....
 humorous
Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves....
 and usually entertaining
Entertainment

Entertainment is an activity designed to give people pleasure or relaxation. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games....
 events or situations, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness
Happiness

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. A variety of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology and Biology approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources....
, laughter
Laughter

Laughter is an audible expression , or appearance of merriment or happiness, or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure . It may ensue from jokes, tickling, and other stimuli....
 and pleasure
Pleasure

Pleasure is commonly conceptualized as a positive experience, happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy , and Euphoria . However, it is a difficult concept to define as the experience of pleasure differs from individual to individual....
. Amusement may also be experienced through the recollection
Recollection

Recollection is the retrieval, or recall, of memory. A temporary failure to retrieve information from memory is known as the Tip of the tongue phenomenon....
 of events which have given rise to amusement in the past.






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Amusement is the state of experiencing
Experience

Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event....
 humorous
Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves....
 and usually entertaining
Entertainment

Entertainment is an activity designed to give people pleasure or relaxation. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games....
 events or situations, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness
Happiness

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. A variety of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology and Biology approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources....
, laughter
Laughter

Laughter is an audible expression , or appearance of merriment or happiness, or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure . It may ensue from jokes, tickling, and other stimuli....
 and pleasure
Pleasure

Pleasure is commonly conceptualized as a positive experience, happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy , and Euphoria . However, it is a difficult concept to define as the experience of pleasure differs from individual to individual....
. Amusement may also be experienced through the recollection
Recollection

Recollection is the retrieval, or recall, of memory. A temporary failure to retrieve information from memory is known as the Tip of the tongue phenomenon....
 of events which have given rise to amusement in the past. The word "Amuse" is so named from the opposite of "Muse"-to learn or to think

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Human
Human

A human being, also human or man, is a member of a species of bipedalism primates in the family Hominidae . Mitochondrial DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
s will typically laugh or smile
Smile

A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing those muscles most notably near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes ....
 to display amusement. For most people at some time, situations which would normally elicit amusement may not always have the same effect, due to various reasons such as one's state of mind. People with certain disorders or disabilities may sometimes appear to experience amusement without an obvious cause or reason.

Although various animals may be perceived as experiencing amusement, this may simply be a case of anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts....
. Interpretations of "amusement" may be attributed to animals that do not behave as expected, such as where an animal runs instead of walks, or becomes more alert. Other animals such as dogs may wag their tails or spin around, birds may chirp more loudly or frequently, while racoons or bears may not react at all.

However, there are instances of animals reportedly, "playing jokes" on other animals or humans. While they may not show any outward signs of amusement, it would seem as if there is no other explanation.

See also

  • Theories of humor
    Theories of humor

    Theories of humor are attempts to explain what causes people to perceive humor in things, events or texts. A closely related topic is the theories of laughter....

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